Monday, April 13, 2009

ATHEIST HOLY DAY

In Florida, an atheist created a case against the upcoming Easterand Passover holy days. He hired an attorney to bring a discrimination caseagainst Christians, Jews and observances of their holy days.

The argument was that it was unfair that atheists had no suchrecognized days. The case was brought before a judge. After listening to the passionate presentation by the lawyer, the judge banged hisgavel declaring, "Case dismissed!"

The lawyer immediately stood objecting to the ruling saying, "Yourhonor, how can you possibly dismiss this case? The Christians haveChristmas, Easter and others. The Jews have Passover, Yom Kippur andHanukkah, yet my client and all other atheists have no such holidays."

The judge leaned forward in his chair saying, "But you do. Yourclient, counsel, is woefully ignorant."

The lawyer said, "Your Honor, we are unaware of any specialobservance or holiday for atheists."

The judge said, "The calendar says April 1st is April Fools Day.Psalm 14:1 states, 'The fool says in his heart, there is no God.' Thus, itis the opinion of this court, that if your client says there is no God,then he is a fool. Therefore, April 1st is his day. Court is adjourned."

2 comments:

Anonymous
said...

Why is a judge that knows his or her scripture good? What about the supposed separation of church and state? I don't see why the Bible should have any bearing on deciding an "Atheist Holy Day", something that is hypocritical in name, and makes no sense. I'm willing to bet this story was made up.

I don't think I said anywhere that this was a true story.. it amused me, so I posted it.

Our nation was founded on christian principles. Separation of church and state means that the state cannot require a person to subscribe to a certain religion, it doesn't mean that God is kept out of the courtroom.